I cannot endure to waste anything as precious as autumn sunshine by staying in the house. So I spend almost all the daylight hours in the open air.
NATHANIEL HAWTHORNEThis world owes all its forward impulses to people ill at ease.
More Nathaniel Hawthorne Quotes
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She had not known the weight until she felt the freedom.
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What we need for our happiness is often close at hand, if we knew but how to seek for it.
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Eager souls, mystics and revolutionaries, may propose to refashion the world in accordance with their dreams; but evil remains, and so long as it lurks in the secret places of the heart, utopia is only the shadow of a dream.
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Selfishness is one of the qualities apt to inspire love.
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Happiness is not found in things you possess, but in what you have the courage to release.
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Articulate words are a harsh clamor and dissonance. When man arrives at his highest perfection, he will again be dumb.
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Easy reading is damn hard writing.
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What other dungeon is so dark as one’s own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one’s self!
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There is evil in every human heart, which may remain latent, perhaps, through the whole of life; but circumstances may rouse it to activity.
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All brave men love; for he only is brave who has affections to fight for, whether in the daily battle of life, or in physical contests.
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Every individual has a place to fill in the world and is important in some respect whether he chooses to be so or not.
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We go all wrong by too strenuous a resolution to go right.
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Time flies over us, but leaves its shadow behind.
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When scattered clouds are resting on the bosoms of hills, it seems as if one might climb into the heavenly region, earth being so intermixed with sky, and gradually transformed into it.
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The world owes all its onward impulses to men ill at ease. The happy man inevitably confines himself within ancient limits.
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